Eleanor Irene Clift is an American political journalist, television pundit, and author.
15 Facts About Eleanor Clift
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Eleanor Clift is a contributor to MSNBC and blogger for The Daily Beast.
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Eleanor Clift is best known as a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group.
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Eleanor Clift Roeloffs was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the daughter of German immigrants from the island of Fohr in the North Sea.
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Eleanor Clift grew up in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, where her parents ran a delicatessen in Sunnyside.
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Eleanor Clift attended both Hofstra University and Hunter College, but left both schools without a degree.
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Eleanor Clift began her career in 1963 as a secretary at Newsweek, and was one of the first female reporters to earn an internship from the secretary pool.
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Eleanor Clift travelled with the campaign and reported from the road.
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When Newsweek merged with The Daily Beast in 2010, Eleanor Clift stayed on to cover politics for the online publication.
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Eleanor Clift began a broadcast career on The Diane Rehm Show on WAMU-FM, Washington, DC, as a Friday week-in-review panelist.
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Eleanor Clift became known to listeners for her good-natured acceptance of ribbing from other panelists and callers to the program.
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Eleanor Clift became a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show The McLaughlin Group, which she has compared to "a televised food fight".
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Eleanor Clift played a panelist in Rising Sun and appeared as herself in Dave, Independence Day and Getting Away with Murder.
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Eleanor Clift was portrayed by actress Mary Ann Burger in the 2009 film Watchmen.
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In 1989, Eleanor Clift married Tom Brazaitis, a Washington columnist for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio.